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How to reinstall print spooler service

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I have a windows XP printer with an HP printer attached to it. 99% of the times I have to restart the computer (restart the spooler service) to get the printer to print. I have downloaded the latest drivers for this and even run SFC /scannow to try and repair the spooler service. I have changed the USB port but nothing is helping.

Thanks! Starting to see more of this behavior in Windows 7 now; I saw it more frequent in XP though.

What we would do is if the user couldn't see their printers consistently on boot up was to have our "script writer" place a script to basically restart the spooler......... yeah, pretty archaic but it seemed to work. With Win-7, we can delay
some services and that seems to work sometimes.

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